MS. Top. Oxon. E. 5 - Collection of Elizabethan sermons

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 607
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-681)
Title
Collection of Elizabethan sermons
Shelfmark
MS. Top. Oxon. E. 5
Creation Date
ca. 1550 - 1599
Repository
Contents Note

A volume edited by Charles Lewis (d. 1836). It contains copies of pieces from the Elizabethan period and other periods. It was written in the second half of the 16th century in both Latin and English. The item on pp. 354-358 is catalogued as a sermon, but it is actually a letter concerning a sermon preached on Galatians 6:10. It is prefaced with this note: ‘Mr D. Mathues writing to my L. of Lecester having geuen of offence, in a sermon at paules crosse, concerning succession’, dated 1576.

Material Features

Paper. 8 5/8 x 7 inches. xii + 392 pages. Purple calf binding with gold line ornament.

Source of Data

Lucy Busfield; Bodleian Library Summary Catalogue, vol. 5

GEMMS record created
July 9, 2017
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024